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Source WASHINGTON, D.C., January 8, 2014 (HAF): Leaders at the Hindu American Foundation (HAF) expressed deep concern today over recent election related violence in Bangladesh that left more than 22 dead and hundreds injured across the country. Supporters of the right-wing Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which boycotted the elections, and their allies from Jamaat-e-Islaami (JeI) and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS)…

Source BANGALORE, INDIA, January 13, 2014 (Times Of India): French author and journalist Francois Gautier feels traditional Indian knowledge is at risk. At a lecture here on Saturday, Gautier said, “Education in India is in a tragic state. Parents produce children in order to export them. India is being Westernized. People here want to be more Westernized than the Westerners…

Source PALERMO, SICILY, January 13, 2014 (The Moderator, translated from Spanish): The city administration is making available its public spaces for important events organized by various religious communities in Palermo announced the mayor, Leoluca Orlando, and the commissioner for Participation, Giusto Catania, as a way to make the city more welcoming and intercultural. This type of activity is part of…

Source Free will is not free–it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect–but there is something behind the will which is free.— Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)

Source WEST TEXAS, U.S., January 9, 2014 (Midland Reporter Telegram): Priesthood is a family tradition for Vignesh Mahadevarahalli, the priest at the Hindu Association of West Texas. His father, grandfather and ancestors were all priests, passing on the customs and traditions from generation to generation. Mahadevarahalli has been priest of the Hindu temple in Midland since early 2008. Growing up…

Source ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, January 7, 2014 (The Hindu): The head of the Pakistan Hindu Council, Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani, Member National Assembly has condemned the rise in kidnapping of Hindu girls, forced conversion and marriage. Talking to the media outside Parliament House on Tuesday he referred to the recent kidnapping of a Hindu woman, Lucky Bhel from Sindh, who was…

Source REUNION, December 27, 2013 (Temoignages, translated from the original French): HPI note: Reunion is a Dpartment (like a state) of France located off the African coast with a substantial Tamil population brought years ago to the island. This training project is a major innovation as parts of the Tamil population work to re-establish their Hindu faith, earlier generations having…

Source Do not say that you do not have time for God. The busiest of men will have the most leisure, and the laziest will always be short of time, for the former utilizes time and the latter only wastes it. If you really want God, you will find time for Him.— Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati (1912-1954), 34th pontiff of the…

Source (HPI Adds: Following is a complete report on this important decision. India’s Supreme Court ruled on January 6, 2014 that the famous Nataraja temple in the town of Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu will continue to be managed by priests and not taken over the state government. In 2009, the Madras High Court had transferred the administration of the 1000-year-old-temple…

Source He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.— Chanakya (350-275 bce), author of Artha Shastra